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Since the late 1990s, the husband-and-wife team of Mike & Amy Finders (rhymes with cinders) have channeled their estimable talents into a catholic mix of vintage and original music that has made them one of the hottest roots acts in the midwest. Where You Are, their third disc, demonstrates yet

Is there a song in the country canon more misunderstood than "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" Popularly read as bemoaning the distance between modern country music and its antecedents -- as, to use one critic's phrase, a "kick in the spangled pants

Compilations of '60s garage music come and go. There's probably been about a million since the godfather of them all -- Nuggets -- appeared in 1972, with Lenny Kaye slyly zeroing in on that moment just before pop's collective self-consciousness kicked in, catching America'

Near the end of Skeeter Davis' honest, sometimes unsettling 1993 autobiography, Bus Fare To Kentucky, she concludes that "without the valleys, I could not have enjoyed the mountains." True enough. She'd journeyed through poverty, musical triumphs and stumbles, controversy, three marriages, and traumas capped by